The fool knows after he has suffered.

Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.

How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.